Trader

**Role**:Trader

**Reports to**:Senior Trader

**Location**: Dubai, MENA

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

We’re MiQ, a programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. We’re experts in data science, analytics and programmatic trading, and we’re always ready to react and solve issues quickly, to make sure our clients are always spending their media investments on the right things in the right places. Our business keeps growing and we keep getting better because we keep hiring smart new people. People who can question conventions and shake things up. People who want to connect with people all over the world to make great things happen. People who are as excited by the opportunities of programmatic marketing as us.

A MiQ Trader is at the heart of the business. The MiQ mission is to be the global leaders in Performance Trading innovation and this means we need to recruit, train and retain the best Trader’s in the market. By joining MiQ’s team as a Trader, represents a real opportunity to have ownership, maximize skills and experience and most of all have an influence at one of the fastest growing digital businesses in the globe.

**JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**

Your main responsibilities will include:
Campaign Execution
- Excellent campaign performance - deliver client success across a diverse portfolio of accounts
- End to end campaign ownership and performance monitoring
- Use data to enhance buying decisions, resulting in overachievement vs. client
- stated KPIs and internal profit objectives
- Use insights to build client rapport to up-sell and earn incremental opportunity

Portfolio Management
- Deliver on-point margin and retain clients
- Grow client business via surpassing KPIs, delivering insights and building relationships
- Use data, analysis, and trading expertise to deliver campaign ahead of pace and maintain performance

Internal Collaboration
- Seamlessly communicate with commercial teams on product/capabilities positioning and growth strategy
- Take initiative to support others and deliver teaching / training sessions
- Work with MiQ global central departments to aid in any of the following:

- o Ad operations
- o Pre-campaign Analysis
- o Post-campaign insight reporting
- o Troubleshooting

External Communication
- Very confident in content creation and delivery for external meetings
- Attend and participate in external meetings - deliver insight pieces and Q&A
- Strong emphasis on delivering clients actionable insights via weekly commentary and end-of
- campaign reports

Innovation
- Regularly use campaigns to test and implement innovative ideas
- Maintain and evolve trading/operational processes and best practices
- Share results to encourage team-wide adoption of new insights, targeting tactics, optimisation methods and ways of working
- Motivated by learning opportunities and is inquisitive

**REQUIRED EXPERIENCE**
- Experience trading digital programmatic campaigns
- Strong Mathematical and analytical education or
- Experience working in client-facing environment would be an advantage
- Experience with trading programmatic campaigns on a fully transparent cost basis would be a significant advantage
- Experience and working knowledge of statistical models and tools, such as SPSS, Regression Analysis/Variance etc. is preferable.
- Startup mindset, heavily ambitious, self-driven are key attributes for the role
- Attention to detail and ability to proactivity “working things out” is key
- Strong communication and ability to work within a team environment

**REQUIRED SKILLS**
- Alignment with MiQ's core values/culture
- High degree of experience in at least one of Appnexus, DBM, or The Trade Desk
- High level of organisation and conscientiousness
- The ability to provide energy, drive and enthusiasm for your team
- The dream to grow your career as the company scales

**WHAT WE VALUE IN OUR PEOPLE**

Passion - We love and live what we do

Determination - We always find a way to figure it out

Unity - We hold each other accountable. We win and lose as a team

Agility - We anticipate the unexpected, embrace and adapt to change

Courage - We dare to think unconventionally

At MiQ, we don’t just accept the differences of our people; it is what builds us as a community. MiQ is very proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are focused on diversity and inclusion so that all employees feel a sense of belonging to help them thrive throughout their careers at MiQ.